Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking

From: Timothy Miller (miller_at_techsource.com)
Date: 07/31/03

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To: herbert@13thfloor.at

    Herbert Pötzl wrote:

    >>Why don't we borrow a trick from my old Atari 8-bit computer. Instead
    >>of blanking, cycle the colors. Best of both worlds: You save your
    >>monitor AND you get to see what's on the screen.
    >
    >
    > hmm, ignoring the issue that modern monitors will not
    > suffer the burnin, how would it help to cycle the colors?
    > the only valid solution would be inverting the image on
    > a regular basis, and I don't think that this would be
    > appreciated ...
    >

    So, if there's no point to having screen-blanking, why is it in there to
    begin with? To protect OLD monitors from burnin?

    Is screen-blanking there just to make people feel better who think they
    need screen-blanking? As I understand, it doesn't do any
    power-management stuff anyhow.

    What's the deal?

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